
Confronting Christianity

Christianity took root in India centuries before the Christianization of Britain.
Rebecca McLaughlin • Confronting Christianity
Why would we seek to build global morality on atheism, when it represents a relatively small proportion of the world’s population, concentrated primarily in people living under Communist regimes?
Rebecca McLaughlin • Confronting Christianity
People who live together before they marry are more likely to divorce than those who do not,
Rebecca McLaughlin • Confronting Christianity
If we work just for money, we tend to find it unsatisfying; but if we put our hearts into our work and see it as a calling that resonates with our values, connects us to people, and fits within a larger vision, we experience joy.
Rebecca McLaughlin • Confronting Christianity
The Most Diverse Movement in All of History
Rebecca McLaughlin • Confronting Christianity
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that kind of connectivity is hard to replicate. We can commit ourselves to a political ideology, or to an ethical cause, like pursuing racial justice or campaigning against human rights abuses.
Rebecca McLaughlin • Confronting Christianity
To be a Christian is to acknowledge your utter moral failure and to throw yourself on the mercy of the only truly good man who ever lived.
Rebecca McLaughlin • Confronting Christianity
Community support alone seems to account for less than 30 percent of the positive effect of religious participation.
Rebecca McLaughlin • Confronting Christianity
Tyler VanderWeele, Harvard professor and world expert on the mental and physical benefits of religious participation, believes that Christianity provides the best framework for understanding different aspects of reality.41 He suggests that “any educated person should, at some point, have critically examined the claims for Christianity and should be
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